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Publications 22 July 2015 EU member states and enlargement towards the Balkans Cornelius Adebahr (External authors), Franco Algieri (Associate Professor and Head of the International Relations Department at Webster University Vienna), Ioannis Armakolas (Assistant Professor at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, and Head of the South-East Europe Programme of…

23 September 2014 Development, Health By Michael R. Snyder This article was originally published by IPI Global Observatory on 8 September, 2014. The spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa is “racing ahead” of efforts to control it, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). On Friday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued an “…

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff June 24 In the war of selfies and hashtags, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria might have won an early victory, but that doesn’t mean the battle with social media is lost. Overwhelmed by ISIS tweets and other online propaganda, pro-Iraq social media accounts have fired back with a hashtag of…

Feb. 18, 2014 – 10:46AM | By NIGEL PITTAWAY | British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring is docked Jan. 24 during a three-day visit to Malaysia. The UK may be expanding its Asia-Pacific presence. (Agence France-Presse) SINGAPORE — A senior defense official forecasts a stronger UK presence in the Asia-Pacific over coming years as the…

Curioso/Shutterstock.com By Joseph Marks September 10, 2013 The Justice Department could be the next federal agency to switch a large share of its websites over to the open source Drupal content management system, contracting documents show. The agency posted a sole-source solicitation on Tuesday asking Drupal supplier Acquia to help it transfer up to its…

Malware infection forces government vuln catalog offline By Jack Clark in San Francisco • Get more from this author Posted in Security, 14th March 2013 01:17 GMT The US government‘s online catalog of cyber-vulnerabilities has been taken offline – ironically, due to a software vulnerability. The National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s National Vulnerability Database‘s (NVD) public-facing…